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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT for Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1994, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1994, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 14.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 260348 TORFTW TXC139-260415- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1045 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ELLIS COUNTY AT 1045 PM DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERES INDICATE A TORNADO OVER THE NORTHRN PART OF WAXAHACHIE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL THREATEN WAXAHACHIE AND ENNIS AND COMMUNITIES TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST OF ENNIS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 4:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 453 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE AND FALLS... AT 428 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GAINSVILLE...TO MINERAL WELLS TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANBURY. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. THE AIR IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THE DRY LINE AND MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THUNDERTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.< STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 5:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-260015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 553 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE AND FALLS... AT 549 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM PILOT POINT...TO 6 MILES WEST OF FT WORTH TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANBURY. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. THE AIR IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THE DRY LINE AND MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THUNDERTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.< STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 6:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-260120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 658 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE AND FALLS... AT 652 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRANBURY TO JUST NORTH OF MESQUITE. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA...HOWEVER... RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. THE AIR IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD REDEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE AND MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LATERB TONIGHT. THUNDERTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. < STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 8:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-260220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 809 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE AND FALLS... AT 803 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF GRANBURY...TO BURLESON TO 10 MILES EAST OF KAUFMAN NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA...HOWEVER... RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE AND MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LATER TONIGHT. THE THUNDERTORMS TO THE DISTANT NORTH CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST ABOUT 20 MPH.< STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 9:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-260320- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 906 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN REISSUED AND REDEFINED AND NOW INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE AND HILL...UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING... AT 903 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRANBURY...TO FERRIS TO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUITMAN. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA...HOWEVER... RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE AND MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LATER TONIGHT. THE THUNDERTORMS TO THE DISTANT NORTH CONTINUE TO FORM BETWEEN MINERAL WELLS AND FT WORTH...THEN MOVE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR.< STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 10:15 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-260430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1013 PM CDT MON APR 25 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN REISSUED AND REDEFINED AND NOW INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS...BOSQUE AND HILL...UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING... AT 1003 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF CLEBURNE...TO 4 MILES NORTH OF WAXAHACHIE TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEMP. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS CURRENTLY IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA...HOWEVER... RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE AND MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA LATER TONIGHT. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION IF DRIVING NORTH ON I-35 INTO THE DALLAS/FT WORTH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER MOST OF< THE METROPLEX...WITH REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN...WITH MANY STREETS FLOODED AND POWER LINES DOWN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Delta, Fannin, Hunt | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 40 min |
| Apr 25, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 62 min |
| Apr 25, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rains | 62 min |
| Apr 25, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 67 min |
| Apr 25, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 98 min |
| Apr 25, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 27 min |
| Apr 25, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 57 min |
| Apr 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 1:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 67 min |
| Apr 26, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 33 min |
| Apr 26, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 45 min |
| Apr 26, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 69 min |
| Apr 26, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 46 min |
| Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke | 36 min |
| Apr 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton, Grayson | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 63 min |
| Apr 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 63 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.